2nd Annual Mobile Reference Designs '07

Lead Sponsor

InterDigital designs, develops and provides advanced wireless technologies and products that drive voice and data communications. The company is a leading contributor to global wireless standards and licenses its patented inventions to manufacturers of 2G and 3G cellular and 802 wireless products worldwide.

InterDigital offers dual mode 2G/3G modem technology, high-performance baseband ASICs, Protocol Stack and complete WWAN reference platforms for Notebook and UMPCs. The company’s differentiated Advanced Receiver Technology for HSDPA and HSUPA delivers superior data speeds and coverage at the cell-edge.

Show Guide Sponsor

For more than 15 years Comneon has been a leading supplier of protocol stack software for mobile communications. Comneon licenses its software to a wide range of customers, including large and small semiconductor companies, established carriers, and some of the leading mobile handset manufacturers. As a fully owned subsidiary of Infineon Technologies AG, Comneon also provides software for Infineon's mobile phone platform.

Comneon's skilled engineers are based in locations in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. They team up to develop best-in-class 3G and 2G protocol stacks and IMS device framework, using state-of-the-art development and configuration management tools.

Conference Sponsor

Elcoteq SE is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with original design manufacturing (ODM) capabilities in the communications technology field. Elcoteq provides global end-to-end solutions consisting of design, NPI, manufacturing, supply chain management, and after-sales services for the whole lifecycle of its customers' products.

These products include terminal products such as mobile phones and settop boxes as well as communications network equipment such as base-stations, tower-top amplifiers, and microwave systems. The company operates in 16 countries on four continents and employs approximately 23,000 people. Elcoteq's consolidated net sales for 2006 totaled 4.3 billion euros. Elcoteq SE is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. For more information visit the Elcoteq website at www.elcoteq.com

Associate Sponsor

Teleca is a leading provider of services and solutions to the mobile industry with significant experience in our arena. Our customers include the top five mobile device manufacturers in the world. We’re using our experience to benefit our customers: we can provide a tailored combination of onshore and offshore services to match the exact requirements of our customers. Simply put, we have in-depth knowledge of how to make things work in a mobile device, on the leading platforms and within a number of domains. Our services comprise full reference designs in HW and SW, software development, integration, customization, testing, along with solution offers related to our software assets, developed from years and years of experience.

The company has more than 2000 employees in 11 countries throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information visit the Elcoteq website at www.teleca.com

Ericsson Mobile Platforms is a leading supplier of GSM/GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA platforms and was one of the first companies in the world to license platforms supporting these technologies to manufactures of mobile phones and other mobile communication devices. Ericsson Mobile Platforms allows mobile phone manufacturers a faster, lower development cost and lower risk route to launching new GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA and HSPA devices. By using Ericsson Mobile Platforms stable platform technology, phone manufacturers can focus their resources on product differentiation in areas such as applications, industrial design, manufacturing, distribution and branding. We enable our customers to rapidly bring attractive products to market.

CETECOM is renowned as a neutral, experienced partner of the telecommunications and information technology industries, offering a unique service portfolio which covers the entire life cycle of mobile communications products, contributing a full, extensive, unparalleled support to customers for fast, quality, reduced risk market entrance. CETECOM has developed a contemporary concept for product qualification which covers the special needs of the different development stages of reference design manufacturers, module integrators and terminal manufacturers. The concept includes the analysis of the reference design specification, optimised use of test results covering all product features, development phases and documentation of hardware and software versions.

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